2025 African Explorations by Private Jet
JOHANNESBURG • VICTORIA FALLS • LINYANTI • SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK • SOSSUSVLEI • KALAHARI
Membership is strictly limited to 15 Travelers
15 DAYS | July 6 – 20, 2025 | BEGIN: Johannesburg, South Africa END: Johannesburg, South Africa
- Luxury hotels with deluxe and suite accommodations
- All meals
- Lakani’s signature Dine By Choice with no limitations – including Room Service
- Deluxe vehicles with a window seat for optimum viewing during sightseeing
- All gratuities to guides, drivers, hotel & restaurant staff and tour manager
- Tour Manager plus an Operations Manager
- Special entertainment and gala evenings
- First class cuisine with fine wines and champagnes aboard the Lakani Private Jet
- Luggage One-Touch
Your VIP Private Jet, which normally seats up to 40 passengers, has been custom-fitted for only 15 travelers with luxurious leather club seats and posh interiors. Your cabin crew will graciously anticipate all of your in-flight needs, while serving first class cuisine with fine wines and champagnes. Experience arrivals like royalty, often at private terminals where you hardly realize the usual customs and immigration formalities have taken place.
Highlights & Inclusions
- Johannesburg – See highlights including a view over the city from Constitutional Hill, and the court building which was constructed using bricks from the demolished former prison.
- Zambia – Take a helicopter flight over one of the most spectacular natural wonders of the world – Victoria Falls. View the majestic falls from the air as you glide over the Zambezi River.
- Botswana – It is renowned for its large herds of elephants. Watch them crisscross ancient wildlife corridors, spraying one another in the Linyanti’s waters and munching on waterlilies. Enjoy the luxury of intimate, exclusive and complete serenity in the nights spent in the African bush.
- Tanzania – The Big Five – lion, rhino, leopard, elephant and Cape buffalo roam freely in their own habitat in the Serengeti National Park, something not to be missed.
- Namibia – Learn how the deserts are formed and how the animals have adapted to this desolate environment, and be mesmerized by the magnificence of the desert on your morning and late afternoon desert drives.
- Tswalu – After seeing the Big 5 elsewhere, you will get a glimpse of some unusual creatures such as meerkats, aardvarks, pangolins, aardwolves, bat-eared foxes and African wildcats at Tswalu.
PRICING
$175,500
Cost Per Person
$19,650
Single Room Supplement
July 6 - 8, 2025 • JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Saxon Hotel
Arrive at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa. You will be met with VIP Fastrack service and transferred to your Luxury Suite at the splendid Saxon Hotel. Meet your travel companions and Lakani Tour Managers at a welcome cocktail reception and dinner party. Enjoy a walking tour to include the City Library, City Hall and Johannesburg Magistrate Court.July 8 • LIVINGSTONE, Zambia--Day Stop
Transfer to the airport and board the Lakani Private Jet bound for Victoria Falls via Livingstone, Zambia. View the majestic falls by helicopter on a scenic flight over the Zambezi River and National Park, before continuing to Chobe, Botswana by local charter flight.July 8 - 11 • LINYANTI, Botswana--Wilderness DumaTau
Board your jet and local flight to your next destination in Botswana, and the Linyanti Wildlife Reserve, home to Africa’s highest density of elephants. With camera and binoculars in hand, you will join your ranger guide for morning and afternoon game drives. Your guide will point out colorful frogs, kingfishers and host of fauna and flora. You may also join a helicopter flight over the Linyanti River floodplain and Savuti Channel, an experience you’ll not soon forget in which you will see the expanse of the delta and see the abundance of wildlife from the sky.July 11 - 14 • SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK, Tanzania--Wilderness Usawa Northern Hills
Depart Botswana by Private Jet to Mwanza, Tanzania. Upon arrival, take a short flight by chartered light aircraft to the world famous Serengeti National Park. The open plains spread out as far as the eye can see, so it’s no surprise that the name Serengeti comes from the Maasai language meaning “endless plains”.Morning and afternoon game drives by safari vehicles with sunrise and sundowner stops. You will also have an opportunity to partake in stargazing with talks about the beautiful African sky.
Serengeti is also a world heritage site and recently proclaimed a 7th worldwide wonder; the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe and thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle. The spectacular of predator versus prey dominates Tanzania’s greatest park. Golden-maned lion prides feast on the abundance of plain grazers.
July 14 - 17 • SOSSUSVLEI, Namibia--&Beyond Sossusvlei Desert Lodge
Board the local charter flight back to Mwanza where we will connect with the Lakani Private Jet and fly to Windhoek, capital of Namibia. There you will transfer to a private charter flight bound for Sossusvlei in the Namib Desert. Gaze at the large red dunes, some of the highest in the world, that surrounds the salt and clay pan in the Namib-Naukluft National Park. You’ll see them from your luxury accommodations at the lodge.Explore the area on guided walks, nature drives, and by quad-bikes. View San rock paintings and petrified dunes. Discover Sesriem Canyon and Dead Vlei on excursions. Float above the spectacular dunes in a helicopter to see the various hues from orange to terra cotta that tower over the vast, dry pan. Join the resident astronomer for an evening of unforgettable stargazing at the state-of-the-art observatory.
July 17 - 20 • TSWALU, KALAHARI, South Africa--The Motse
Board your Lakani Private Jet and head to Johannesburg, South Africa where you will connect with our local charter flight to the largest private game reserve, the Tswalu Kalahari. Encounter Kalahari’s wildlife on game drives that take you to Tswalu’s diverse habitats that include rolling dunes, semi-arid grassland, and the Korannaberg mountain range, providing shelter and increasing the biodiversity as well as creating a splendid scenic backdrop.An early morning visit to Tswalu’s habituated meerkats to see them in their natural habitat is an unforgettable encounter. You’ll have an opportunity to get within a few feet of one family group to watch them pop in and out of their burrows, stand tall, groom and play with each other, soak up the sunshine, and forage in the sand for tasty morsels. Here you will also have an opportunity to see other more elusive species in Africa, namely aardvark, pangolin and bat-eared fox.
On your final night bid farewell to your fellow travelers at a cocktail and dinner party.
July 20 • Depart JOHANNESBURG
Your unforgettable journey around Africa comes to a close as you fly to Johannesburg, where you will have an opportunity to refresh and repack in your reserved room at the Intercontinental Hotel before your departure flight home or to your next destination.
Saxon Hotel, Villas & Spa • Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA
Settle in your elegant and spacious Luxury Suite in the prestigious hotel situated on ten acres of gardens. Enjoy 24-hour butler service, an array of welcome amenities and absolute comfort in your beautiful suite that is decorated in contemporary African style. Visit the Spa for a rejuvenating treatment to help you recover from your international flight.
Wilderness DumaTau • Linyanti, BOTSWANA
Ultra-spacious tented suites, each with a private plunge pool, are raised on wooden walkways a few steps from where wildlife wanders peacefully through the camp. Interiors of hand-crafted mosaic tile, acacia wood and local textiles reflect the heart of the Linyanti, one of Botswana’s most treasured wildlife havens.
Wilderness Usawa Serengeti • Serengeti, TANZANIA
Experience the ultimate in luxury camping in the heart of Africa’s most impressive spectacle. Carefully positioned for proximity to the wildlife of the Great Migration, the mobile camp affords you optimal viewing opportunities of the wildebeest migration.
&Beyond Sossusvlei Desert Lodge • Sossusvlei, NAMIBIA
Escape from daily stress and reconnect with nature in your newly refurbished, air-conditioned Suite with unforgettable floor to ceiling views of the surrounding mountains and sand dunes of the Namib Desert. After a day of exploring the desert on nature drives and walks, take a dip in the pool. In the evening, join the resident astronomer for an in-depth look at the amazing African sky.
The Motse • Tswalu, Kalahari, SOUTH AFRICA
Your elegant “little house” or Legae awaits you at The Motse looking out onto the grasslands of the Kalahari. Built of desert sand and stone, with a traditional Kalahari thatch, your lovely suite reflects the ambience of the area. Relax on your private sundeck and watch for the variety of wildlife as they make their way to the waterhole. What better way to spend the last days of your African private jet journey!
